On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Matt Thomas wrote:
> At 05:04 PM 3/13/00 , Brian Chase wrote:

> >I agree with Chuck in that I think we should always be able to build
> >-current from the most recent stable release of the kernel (assuming that
> >the -current source is in a state which can be compiled).
> 
> So when a new version of binutils or egcs gets integrated into -current,
> no one can use it until the new release?

I didn't say that :-)  I just said that I think the last stable release
should be able to build -current (with relative ease).

> [...]
> Ideally the build system should have a make bootstrap which builds everything
> needed to build the system. (compilers, binutils, yacc/lex, and other useful
> things).

That would probably be the most sensible approach to solving the problem.
The build process just needs to be more fool-proof than it currently is.

-brian.
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